How would she govern?

The world this week

Politics
Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders


Personality and policy
Kamala Harris can beat Donald Trump. But how would she govern?
Being a politician is about more than campaigning. More policy detail is needed

A deadly virus
Countries should act faster to curb the spread of mpox
The slower the response, the more people will die

Artificial intelligence
Regulators are focusing on real AI risks over theoretical ones. Good
Rules on safety may one day be needed. But not yet

Recession scares
What to make of America’s topsy-turvy economy
Don’t panic just yet

Visas, vistas and vegetarian food
How to attract Indian tourists
Destinations are competing for the travelling rupee

Letters

On education, Africa, tourism, Russia, Lyndon Johnson
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Artificial intelligence
Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek on why Europe should embrace open-source AI
Briefing


Woolly warrior
Kamala Harris has revealed only the vaguest of policy platforms
Her record suggests she would be a pragmatist
Asia


A succession battle in Hanoi
Vietnam’s new ruler: hardman, capitalist, hedonist
Mining for memories
What a Japanese gold mine says about its approach to history
New city, new start?
Indonesia’s new capital is built on vanity
India’s women problem
The rape and murder of a doctor in India is fuelling outrage
Banyan
If a China and America war went nuclear, who would win?
China


Sizing up the ticket
China’s rulers are surprised by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
Tossing eggs at a national pastime
Millions of Chinese people play guandan. Is that good or bad?
The other gas problem
Time for China to get serious about its methane emissions
Access delayed
Why are VPNs getting slower in China?
Chaguan
In China’s “median city” people are surprisingly risk-averse
United States


The view from the Bay
San Francisco Democrats are embracing “law and order” politics
More deaths, less outrage
Police are killing more Americans than ever. Where’s the outrage?
Spoiler alert
Kamala Harris is winning back third-party voters
The new frontier
Behind the surge in migrants crossing America’s northern border
Stuck in low-Earth orbit
NASA insists that two astronauts are not “stranded” in space
A smashing time
Where crashing cars is the point
Lexington
History will judge Joe Biden by Kamala Harris

Middle East & Africa


The Israel-Hamas war and Iran
The Middle East’s bizarre waiting game: ceasefire or Armageddon?
Iran’s new government
The threat of war is empowering the Islamic republic’s hardliners
The real action
Making love not war in the Middle East
The sun also rises
A shift towards green investment is under way in Africa
A new epidemic
In Congo, a desperate struggle to control the deadly mpox outbreak
Click click boom
YouTube in Africa offers a new kind of news
The Americas


Mexico’s incoming president (1)
Investors panicked after Mexico’s election. Were they right?
Mexico’s incoming president (2)
Confused and dirty: Claudia Sheinbaum’s energy plan
Military Mileise
Javier Milei is splurging on the army
Europe


The Russian economy
The mysterious middlemen helping Russia’s war machine
On the edge
The Kremlin is close to crushing Pokrovsk, a vital Ukrainian town
Gold rush
Turkey’s asset-price boom is good for some but terrible for most
The cash flows south
How Italy’s Mezzogiorno is benefiting from a flood of EU aid
Turning round
After decades of decline, Poland’s population seems to be increasing
Not very Teutonic
The rebuilding of Berlin’s Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
Charlemagne
What Europe’s comeback politicians can teach American voters
Britain


Two cultures
The trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticians
Bayesian tragedy
Mike Lynch was Britain’s first software billionaire
Exaflop
Britain’s government pulls the plug on a superfast computer
Cancellarius culture
The tricky politics of choosing Oxford’s next chancellor
A place to be
Youth clubs in Britain have been vanishing
Righting wrongs
Britain’s boom in public inquiries into past disasters
International


From Bangkok to Dubai
Indian tourists are conquering the world
Business


Appetite for change
Can big food adapt to healthier diets?
Tech on wheels
Apple can’t do cars. Meet the Chinese tech giants that can
Burnt out
From Coachella to Burning Man, festivals are having a bad year
Blue-sky thinking
India’s largest airline is flying high
Konbini combination
What a takeover offer for 7-Eleven says about business in Japan
Changing times
Why Germany’s watchmakers are worried about the AfD
Bartleby
What to do about pets in the office
Schumpeter
Why America’s tech giants have got bigger and stronger
Finance & economics


Muddled and misguided
Kamala Harris’s cost-of-living plan will end in failure
Reds under the bed
America’s anti-price-gouging laws are too minor to be communist
Danger signs
Is America already in recession?
The new gender gap
Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?
Going cheap
Why investors are not buying Europe’s revival
Buttonwood
Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFs
Free exchange
Artificial intelligence is losing hype
Schools brief


Risks and rules
AI needs regulation, but what kind, and how much?
Science & technology


Red planet
Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating
Cryptography
The world needs codes quantum computers can’t break
Culture


RIP adulthood
Is Western culture stopping people from growing up?
Travel and leisure
Madrid, Europe’s fourth-largest city, deserves more appreciation
Flights of fantasy
Whatever happened to flying cars and other promises?
Picture perfect
Is there such a thing as a classic?
World in a dish
In praise of mangoes
Lights, camera, Pentagon!
Hollywood has a behind-the-scenes helper you might not expect
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Sweet stardom
Wally Amos built, and lost, a delicious empire